Kuomintang
/kwəʊmɪnˈtæŋ/
"kuomintang" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Kuomintang” is uncommon English (frequency #51,205 among 9,255 “K” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,205
- frequency rank, English
- 9,255
- “K” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A nationalist political party founded under Sun Yat-sen in 1912 that ruled mainland China from 1928 to 1949, now one of three major parties in the Republic of China (Taiwan).
Corpus desk
Index EN-kuomintang · Kuomintang · English
Kuomintang · rank #51,205 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,205
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 9,255
- PHOTO-FINISH KwaZulu
Nearest frequency peer: KwaZulu (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Kuomintang”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- kirkman
kirkman
48,799 corpus weight
- kratom
kratom
48,798 corpus weight
- Kuomintang
Kuomintang
48,796 corpus weight
- KwaZulu
KwaZulu
48,795 corpus weight
- Lackawanna
Lackawanna
48,794 corpus weight
- landless
landless
48,792 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Kuomintang” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Kuomintang |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /kwəʊmɪnˈtæŋ/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #51,205 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Kuomintang” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Kuomintang is uncommon English at frequency #51,205 among 9,255 “K” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /kwəʊmɪnˈtæŋ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A nationalist political party founded under Sun Yat-sen in 1912 that ruled mainland China from 1928 to 1949, now one of three major parties in the Republic of China (Taiwan).".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Kuomintang, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Etymologically, the entry records: c. 1912, from the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 國民黨 /国民党 (Guómíndǎng), Wade–Giles: Kuo²-min²-tang³. The correct English form is Kuomintang, spelled K-U-O-M-I-N-T-A-N-G.
Definition
- 1A nationalist political party founded under Sun Yat-sen in 1912 that ruled mainland China from 1928 to 1949, now one of three major parties in the Republic of China (Taiwan).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Kuomintang appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It is generally believed that the creation of the Kuomintang will somewhat straighten out the political tangle in China caused by the multitude of parties. The Kuomintang holds itself out as the democratic party, and its support of the President will be tempered by the path his future actions take.
The trend of events from the founding of the Republic to the unseating of the Kuomintang members of the National Assembly in November, 1913, however, confirmed the belief held in many quarters that republicanism was not a suitable system of government for the Chinese in their present stage of political development.
Etymology
c. 1912, from the Wade–Giles romanization of Mandarin 國民黨 /国民党 (Guómíndǎng), Wade–Giles: Kuo²-min²-tang³.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.